NOTE: THE SWP ALSO USES AN ALTERNATE (SURROGATE) SWP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE IN SOME STATES, WHERE NEEDED, AS CALERO WAS NOT U.S. BORN AND IS NOT CONSTITUTIONALLY QUALIFIED TO BE ON THE BALLOT. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES WITH BALLOT STATUS IN AT LEAST ONE STATE: Richard A. Duncan (Independent-Ohio) - No Campaign Website John Joseph Polachek (New Party-Illinois) - No Photo/No Campaign Website Jeffrey Wamboldt (We The People-Wisconsin) - No Photo/No Campaign Website WRITE-IN CANDIDATES: NOTE: NONE OF THE BELOW CANDIDATES HAVE YET TO ACHIEVE BALLOT STATUS IN ANY STATE.
A Look at Other Black Presidential Candidates Before Obama. 15, 2008, at 11:47 a.m. A Look at Other Black Presidential Candidates Before Obama. Shirley Chisholm. NOTE: Candidates like Gary Johnson in 2008 and Pat Buchanan in 2000 who withdrew from the Republican Party primary but continued their campaigns as.
Lawson Mitchell Bone (Independent-Tennessee) Michael L. Faith (Independent-Ohio) Leonard C. Habermehl (Independent-Kentucky) Yonyuth Hongsakaphadana (Independent-Connecticut) Lou Kujawski (Independent-Ohio) Kevin Mottus (Independent-California) Gary Nettles (Independent-Florida) John Leroy Plemons (Independent-Indiana) OTHER RESOURCES: - A great site has lots of detailed information on the 2008 Presidential contest. Published by Eric Appleman of GWU. Eric has been covering the White House races starting with the 2000 elections. Very useful, well balanced.
A great resource. Ruffini - who was the website designer and Internet strategist for the 2004 Bush/Cheney campaign - launched this nice news aggregator site in '05 to track all of the news and blog stories on the possible White House candidates from the two major parties. This blog site tracks lots of the key, mainstream news stories about the various hopefuls. Another blog site tracking the various hopefuls seeking the Democratic and Republican Presidential nominations.
Not even published in the US, but this site is a good non-partisan blog for tracking news on the 2008 race. Published by Daniel Owens in the UK. This site contains just about anything you could ever want to know about the influential New Hampshire Presidential primary - including a directory of every candidate who ever ran in the NH primary. Maintained by the New Hampshire State Library, Franklin Pierce College, University of New Hampshire, St. Anselm College, the New Hampshire State Archives and the New Hampshire Historical Society. Why bother reinventing the wheel and writing our own poll tracking page when this excellent page already exists.
To follow the trends in all of the latest polls in the Presidency 2008 race, simply visit this site. Information, links and some streaming video events from one of the nation's leading sources of raw political television coverage. Covers the various likely Presidential candidates.
Constantly updated. This respected publication - founded in 1985 by Libertarian activist Richard Winger - tracks the attempts of third party and independent candidates for various offices to secure ballot access in the 50 states.
The site also tracks changes in the law, court challenges and other interesting tidbits of third party news you usually won't find elsewhere. Use this page to stay current on which third party and independent candidates will and won't appear on your state's general election ballot in November 2008 - Dave Leip prepared this very informative site, which provides historic voting results from the Presidential general elections of 1860-2004 and - when it rolls around - the 2008 Presidential primaries. Covers the vote totals for the major party nominees and the top 2 or 3 third party nominees in each race. Colorful maps and graphs, too. Established by leaders of the two major parties to ensure that debates remain a permanent part of every general election, this nonprofit and bipartisan organization sponsored all the general election Presidential debates since 1988. Their controversial and restrictive participation rules largely exclude third party candidates (even the major ones) from participating in these nationally televised debates.
One of the groups protesting these restrictions is. What is the difference between a caucus and a primary? How do nominating conventions work? What about the popular vote versus the electoral college vote? If you need a better understanding of the American Presidential election process, check out this informative site. The State Department runs this site to help inform foreign journalists about how the US political process works. No one pays much attention to Vice Presidents - or, at least, they didn't used to - except for these guys.
History, trivia, quotes, bios, and more. An online museum of Presidential campaign brochures, bumper stickers and key speches from 1960 through the 2008 campaign.
A great site for political junkies. The American Museum of the Moving Image presents this great online museum of Presidential campaign TV commercials. The ads, which cover every election since 1952 (Ike vs. Stevenson), are an amazing resource.
And - Our archived pages from the 2004 and 2000 Presidential races. We're not updating them any longer, but we've kept them online if you're still looking for them. And, yes, we know many of the links there have gone bad.
And that some point to sites that are now pornographic. But, I'll repeat, we're not updating them anymore. Think of them as sentimental reference points. © 1997-2015 by Ron Gunzburger.
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The presidential candidates and their political parties, number of electoral and popular votes received, and vice presidential candidates for every election from 1789 to 2008 are listed below, in reverse chronological order. Every candidate that received either more than 100,000 popular votes or at least one electoral vote has been included. Please note that there is no official federal record of popular votes cast in presidential elections because the information is compiled by each state, so the totals vary across different sources. ProCon.org used data provided by the National Archives and Records Administration when possible, and supplemented the missing information with data from Dave Leip's Atlas of US Presidential Elections and the Federal Elections Commission.
The data were corroborated with other sources including the New York Times, CNN, and PresidentElect.org. While the sites had discrepencies in the numbers provided for the popular vote totals, all reported totals were within 1% of each other. Don't miss our Election History at the bottom of the page. Year Presidential Candidates (winner in bold). Popular Votes VP Candidates (winner in bold) 2008 Barack Obama (44th Pres.) John McCain Ralph Nader Bob Barr Chuck Baldwin Cynthia McKinney Democratic Republican Independent Libertarian Constitution Green 365 173 0 0 0 0 69,456,897 59,934,814 738,475 523,686 199,314 161,603 Joe Biden Sarah Palin Matt Gonzalez Wayne Root Darrell Castle Rosa Clemente. John Adams.Visit our page on for information on current and historical US political parties.The number of electoral votes apportioned to each State corresponds to the number of US Representatives and Senators in each State.
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The allotment of electoral votes changes every 10 years depending on the results of the US Census. Visit our page on for more information on the electoral college. Did You Know? Little Known Facts about Presidential Elections:. The first presidential election took place in.
There have been 55 presidential elections and 43 Presidents in US history. In the election of, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr both received 73 electoral votes. Since neither candidate had a majority, the election was turned over to the House of Representatives. Alexander Hamilton intervened in support of Jefferson to break a deadlock in the House of Representatives. This action contributed to the famous duel between Burr and Hamilton that took place four years later, in which Hamilton was killed. A presidential candidate has won the election despite losing the popular vote four times in US history:,.
In 1824, John Quincy Adams lost both the popular and the electoral vote, but the House of Representatives decided the outcome of the election because his opponent failed to secure a majority of electoral votes. The shortest presidency in the history of the office was served by, who died of pneumonia on Apr. 4, 1841, just 31 days into his term. Grover Cleveland was elected as the and President of the United States, making him the only President to serve two nonconsecutive terms. Incumbents have run in 30 of the 55 presidential elections in US history.
The incumbent won 20 times and lost 10 times. Four of the re-elected incumbents served their first terms without being elected because their predecessors died in office (, and ). The Constitution did not originally contain term limits.
The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, restricted presidents to a maximum of two terms. Four-time president Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only candidate to be elected more than twice (, ). Eight US Presidents have died while in office. Four were assassinated (, and ) and four died of natural causes (, and ).
14 Vice Presidents have become President; 5 were elected, and 8 succeeded Presidents that died in office. Was the only person to serve as both President and Vice President without being elected to either office. There have been 538 in each presidential election since 1960. A candidate must win a majority of those votes (270) to win the election.
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